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PREPARATIONS FOR LAUNCHING A NEW LIBRARY EXHIBIT

• May 27, 2011 • Leave a Comment

Posted in cruise ships, Cunard Line, Dr. Laurence Miller, Laurence Miller Collection, ocean liners, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library exhibits
Tags: French Line, Union Castle Mail Steamship Company, White Star Line

WOLFSONIAN ARTIST PROFILE: LOUIS RAEMAEKERS (1869-1956)

• May 20, 2011 • 1 Comment

Posted in graphic arts, war propaganda, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War I, WWI
Tags: caricatures, caricaturists, Cartoonists, cartoons, Dutch illustrators, Emperor Franz Joseph (Austro-Hungarian Empire), illustrators, Kaiser Wilhelm II (Germany), Louis Raemaekers (1869-1956), Professor Sean Hermanson, propaganda, Sultan Mehmed V (Ottoman Empire), Truth and Propaganda, war, war artists, World War (1914-1918)

SOME INTERESTING ITEMS FROM THE STATE OF DENMARK

• May 17, 2011 • 1 Comment

Posted in Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Danish books, Danish librarians, Denmark, Miami Dade Public Library System

TRUTH AND PROPAGANDA

• May 13, 2011 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Anti-Nazi propaganda, colonial propaganda, colonialism, Ethiopia, Fascism, FIU students, Florida International University students, Mellon curriculum development grant, political art, promotional materials, propaganda arts, Wolfsonian library, World War II, WWII
Tags: anti-fascist movement, Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), Boro-Talco powder, Broadsides, commercial advertising, fans, Federico-Antonio Carasso (alias Fred Deltor), Jon Mogul, Lidice massacre (Czechoslovakia), persuasive arts, Professor Sean Hermanson, propaganda, Regina Bailey, satires, Sheet music covers, Truth and Propaganda

A TALE OF TWO CITIES: THE MIAMI-GENOA CONNECTION

• May 11, 2011 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Christopher DeNoon, FIU students, Florida International University, Italy, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsoniana, WPA
Tags: Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), Genoa (Italy), Professor A. Douglas Kincaid, The Christopher DeNoon Collection for the Study of New Deal Culture, Wolfsoniana (Genoa Italy), workers

VISIT BY DANISH LIBRARIANS AND MICHIGAN OPERA LOVERS

• May 4, 2011 • 1 Comment

Posted in Adolf Hitler caricatures, Anti-Nazi propaganda, Harald Engman, playbills, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library exhibits
Tags: Denmark, Matthew Abess, Miami-Dade Public Library, Michigan Opera Theatre, Opera, poetry, Rewriting the World